New Hampshire would ask for a convention on congressional term limits

The proposed resolution would ask Congress to call a convention of the states to propose an amendment setting term limits for members of both houses of Congress. The proposal covers elected members of the United States House of Representatives and Senate. The convention would be limited to proposing an amendment on congressional term limits; it would not itself set those limits.

The proposed resolution would direct the House clerk to send the application to federal leaders, New Hampshire’s members of Congress, and leaders of other state legislatures. Recipients include the president and secretary of the U.S. Senate; the speaker, clerk, and judiciary committee chair of the U.S. House; New Hampshire’s members of Congress; and presiding officers of other state legislatures. The application would ask leaders of other states to cooperate.

The proposed resolution would count New Hampshire’s application with similar state applications seeking a convention on congressional term limits. The application would be grouped with applications seeking limits on the number of terms a person may be elected to the U.S. House or Senate. It would count only applications on this subject, not applications on other subjects. The combined applications would count toward the two-thirds of states needed to require Congress to call a limited convention. The application would remain in effect until legislatures in at least two-thirds of the states apply on the same subject.